10.0
10.0
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
John Shrapnel
Also known as: John Morley Shrapnel
Acting
Born:April 27, 1942
Died:February 14, 2020(aged 77)
Birthplace:Birmingham, England, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Education:University of Cambridge, St Catharine's College
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CommunityBiography
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.
Filmography (78 movies)
10.0
10.0
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
2004
as Narrator
10.0
10.0
King Arthur: His Life and Legends
1995
9.0
9.0
Lion Queen
1998
as Narrator (voice)
8.2
8.2
Gladiator
2000
as Gaius
8.2
8.2
Hamlet
2015
as Claudius/Ghost
8.0
8.0
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Hector
8.0
8.0
Supermassive Black Holes
2000
as Narrator
7.8
7.8
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009
as Théramène
7.7
7.7
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
as Camilo
7.3
7.3
Notting Hill
1999
as PR Chief
7.2
7.2
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999
as General Charette
7.2
7.2
Troy
2004
as Nestor
7.0
7.0
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
2017
as Narrator (Voice)
7.0
7.0
Selling Hitler
1993
as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
7.0
7.0
Timon of Athens
1981
as Alcibiades
7.0
7.0
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
2001
as Narrator
7.0
7.0
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013
as Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
7.0
7.0
The Duchess
2008
as General Grey
6.8
6.8
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
2007
as Himself (Narrator)
6.7
6.7
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
as Lord Howard
6.5
6.5
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
as Admiral Bratyeev
6.4
6.4
The Awakening
2011
as Reverend Hugh Purslow
6.3
6.3
King Charles III
2017
as Archbishop of Canterbury
6.3
6.3
Mirrors
2008
as Lorenzo Sapelli
6.2
6.2
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989
as Psychiatrist
6.1
6.1
Fatherland
1994
as General Globus
6.1
6.1
Whistle
2002
as Paul
6.0
6.0
Professional Foul
1977
as McKendrick
6.0
6.0
King Lear
1982
as Earl of Kent
6.0
6.0
Personal Services
1987
as Lionel
5.9
5.9
101 Dalmatians
1996
as Skinner
5.8
5.8
Shadow of the Sword
2005
as Archbishop
5.6
5.6
Alien Autopsy
2006
as Michael Kuhn
5.5
5.5
The Body
2001
as Moshe Cohen
5.0
5.0
Two Deaths
1996
as Cinca
5.0
5.0
England, My England
1995
as Samuel Pepys
5.0
5.0
Partition
1987
as General Flood
4.8
4.8
Claim
2002
as Lex Vandenberg
4.7
4.7
Hennessy
1975
as Tipaldi
4.6
4.6
Alone
2002
as Hannah
4.5
4.5
Testimony
1988
as Andre Zhdanov
4.2
4.2
Chemical Wedding
2008
as Crowley
4.0
4.0
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
as Simon
4.0
4.0
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
1992
as Narrator
2.0
2.0
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
as Creon
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
as Iwaszkiewicz
Wild Women of Viramba
2003
as Narrator
Animals of the Ocean Desert
2001
as Narrator
Hamlet
TBA
as Claudius
Hamlet Within
2022
The Ha-Ha
1969
as Jamie
The Tom Machine
1980
King Lear
1975
as Duke of Cornwall
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
2016
as Narrator - (Voice)
The Three Hostages
1977
as Gaudian
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2005
as Narrator (English Version)
Flayed
1978
as Robert
The Victim
1980
as Vincent Craig
It's Called the Sugar Plum
1969
as Wally Zuckerman
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007
as Billy Palmer
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1997
as Narrator (English voice)
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2002
as Narrator (English Version)
Hamlet
1992
as Claudius/Ghost
Gossip from the Forest
1979
as Matthias Erzberger
Hitting Town
1976
as Leonard Brazil (voice)
OXI, an Act of Resistance
2014
as Creon
An Organization of Dreams
2009
as Father
Run.
2013
as St. Peter
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
1986
as Creon
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986
as Creon
Poppyland
1985
as George Sims
The Gentleman Thief
2001
as Monty Sinclair
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
2004
as Narrator
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
2004
as Narrator
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
2014
as Narrator
The Race for Everest
2003
as Narrator
The Burston Rebellion
1985
as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
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